Dead Eye

While "Murder, She Wrote" has never been what one would term a realistic procedural, "Dead Eye" has to be one of the most boneheadedly unrealistic episodes of the series. Ostensibly based on proof that the Kennedy assassination was more than met the Warren Commission's eye(s), it is instead a collection of rather stock mystery characters, with Jessica stuck in the middle, all of whom act dumb and do inexplicable things simply because the furtherance of the plot requires them to do so. It also features perhaps the most out-to-lunch police foil Jessica ever encountered. The basic idea might have made a decent feature film (there's too much going on to cram into an hour show) with original protagonists, but trying to force it into the "M,SW" format doesn't work.